Grant Program Environment

To extend Canada’s precedent-setting ban on the endocrine-disrupting chemical Bisphenol A in baby products to all canned food containers.

To build, coordinate and facilitate an integrated national campaign to reform US chemical policy; coordinate campaigns in multiple states to ban brominated flame retardants; coordinate nonprofit networks such as Coming Clean; develop and execute market-based strategies to reduce chemicals use;…

To enact significant reforms to federal chemical policy by coordinating a united effort among environmental health and justice organizations that engages the public, opinion leaders and policymakers.

To expand operations, sales, revenue streams, customer bases, market opportunities, total number and long-term viability of the central Vermont farms within the network of these two programs.

To help New Hampshire reduce greenhouse gas emissions by increasing energy efficiency in at least half of all municipal, commercial, industrial and residential buildings by 2018, focused on a project expansion into the commercial and industrial sectors.

To reduce the public’s exposure to hazardous chemicals in by promoting fundamental reforms of the federal regulatory structure.

To protect and implement Ohio’s recently adopted energy efficiency standards, and to advance important “next generation” energy efficiency policies in Ohio.

To improve design elements of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; assist participating states in implementing the nation’s first carbon cap-and-trade program; monitor effective use of funds raised from auction allowances; and highlight lessons from the regional initiative that can be…

To employ science, policy development and legal reforms in implementing the precautionary principle in state and federal chemicals policy.

To prevent construction of new coal-fired power plants in the Midwest and begin the orderly retirement of the region’s existing fleet of coal-fired plants.